Hey everybody! I'm Will, a designer working on RimWorld - Biotech. In our last blog post, we covered how Biotech lets you build mechanoid colonies run by high-tech mechanitor overseers. You can also read the original 1.4 update and Biotech announcement here.

Today, we’ll look at combat mechanoids, commander mechanoids, and pollution! New combat mechanoids open up many avenues for offensive and defensive tactics, and special super-dangerous mechs hold the key to greater power for your mechanitor. Mechanoid production also generates pollution which has its own unique challenges and uses.

Later this week we’ll take a look at reproduction, children, vatgrowing, and genetic modifications.

Check out the other preview blogs:

• Biotech expansion announced: Why we made it
  
• Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
  
• [Here] Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses
  
• Biotech preview #3: Reproduction, children, ...

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Hey all - Tynan here. This is the first of our Biotech preview blog posts, where we lay out the features of the Biotech expansion, and the thought behind them, in more detail. You can look forward to more posts on the way. (If you missed the Biotech announcement, you probably want to start there. You can wishlist RimWorld - Biotech here.)

Today’s preview post covers mechanitor core concepts, mechanoid infrastructure, and labor mechanoids. The next post is in a few days, and will cover combat mechanoids, enemy super-mechanoids, and other mechanitor-related features, and there will be many more after that.

Check out the other blog posts:

• Biotech expansion announced: Why we made it
  
• [Here] Biotech preview #1: Mechanitor infrastructure and labor mechs
  
• Biotech preview #2: Combat mechanoids, pollution, and super-mechanoid bosses
  
• Biotech preview #3: Reproduction, children, genetic modification
  
• Biotech preview #4: Xenotypes, world factions, and the dark bloo...

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